A second mission started in 1994 but only made it six months. The story of Biosphere 2, however, has evolved well beyond the late-night punchlines, tell-all books and the Pauly Shore movie Bio-Dome.

Biosphere 2 had a thousand sensors monitoring its air and water. Our senses, which should perceive toxicity, are numbed. Yet we are in a human experiment of life-changing opportunity.

DOVER — A Dover High School science teacher with dreams of building a smaller-scale version of Arizona's Biosphere 2 on County Farm Road has gone public with his ideas.. Matthew Endrizzi, a ...

Biosphere 2 launched 30 years ago, on September 26, 1991, when a crew of eight—including a physician, botanist and marine biologist—began a two-year residency inside this 3.14-acre terrarium.

Biosphere 2, at 32540 S. Biosphere Road in Oracle, Arizona, is open every day (except Thanksgiving and Christmas) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, go to biosphere2.org.

Biosphere 2's 30-year-old rain forest is nearly 1.3 million cubic feet of tropical habitat supporting a complex patchwork of nearly 98 species and canopy structures, making the B2 rain forest a ...

For sale: 137,000-square-foot building with stunning views of the Catalina and Tortolita mountains through 6,500 windows. The Texas company that built and owns the Biosphere 2 Center near Oracle ...

Paper beats rock and plants eat rocks. Biosphere 2 will show how plants can eat rocks at a lecture on Saturday. A discussion of the relationship between plants and rocks serving as a source for ...

The story of Biosphere 2, however, has evolved well beyond the late-night punchlines, tell-all books and the Pauly Shore movie Bio-Dome. Texas billionaire Ed Bass spent some $150 million building ...

The story of Biosphere 2, however, has evolved well beyond the late-night punchlines, tell-all books and the Pauly Shore movie Bio-Dome. Texas billionaire Ed Bass spent some $150 million building ...

Inside Biosphere 2's giant glass pyramid, tropical trees stretch 80 feet above the forest floor. Crazy ants, so named because of their erratic movements, scurry below. The rainforest is less diverse ...